Ghost Busting Mystery: Shady Hoosier Detective Agency (Book 1)

Daisy Pettles

Dec 2019 · Hot Pants Press LLC · Narrated by Layce Gardner

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"Murder She Wrote meets the Golden Girls .., the fun is infectious" wrote the Indie Reader after declaring Ghost Busting Mystery, Book 1 of The Shady Hoosier Detective Agency cozy mystery series, the Best Indie Humor Book of 2019. When Dode Schneider, rattle-brained farmer, insists an abandoned mansion is haunted by ghosts with big butts, Pawpaw County Sheriff Boots Gibson happily off-loads the crazy complaint to Ruby Jane and Veenie, southern old lady amateur sleuths in training with the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency. The lifelong gal pals aren’t afraid of the haunted mansion, built by a con artist banker who rowed out of town on the flood waters of 1919, taking the town’s gold with him. The crime-cracking senior duo set out in their smoke-belching 1960 Impala to uncover the truth behind the century-old haunting legend only to find evidence of long ago murder and mayhem. Along the way, Veenie and Ruby Jane chase down a missing drunk wiener dog, earn a lifetime supply of mystery meat sandwiches from Pokey’s Tavern, recover a stolen Harley, and uncover the startling truth about a long-cursed buried treasure. The investigation doesn’t go smoothly, but Ruby Jane and Veenie, fueled by senior grit, engage in crime-cracking hijinks that will leave the reader rolling in laughter in this classic southern cozy, crime comedy novel, winner of Best Humor Book from the The Next Generation Indie Book Awards, as well as an IPPY Award as Best Cozy Mystery.

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Daisy Pettles, author of the award-winning cozy mystery series, The Shady Hoosier Detective Agency, is the pen name of Vicky Phillips, born in the hills and hollers of Southern Indiana. She grew up in her father's hometown of Medora, here he ran a Phillips 66 gas station while her mother ran the local ice cream stand. She learned to read on her grandmother's lap, sitting under an apple tree, where she was fed a steady diet of books, pies, and Bible stories. Graduating Medora High School in 1977, she attended DePauw University, where she was graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude with a bachelor's in psychology before earning a master's degree in psychology from Antioch University. A world traveler, she has lived in San Francisco, London, and Athens. She has raced camels in Egypt and eaten Kentucky Fried Chicken with Communists in Shanghai. She spent her early years training as a therapist before becoming an Internet entrepreneur, designing America's first online university system in 1989, and earning the US News career accolade of "for twenty years America's leading consumer advocate for online college students." Her non-fiction writings have appeared in hundreds of national markets ranging from essays and articles in Salon, CNN and Nation's Business, to college textbooks, software, and guidebooks from The Princeton Review, Arco Macmillan and Simon & Schuster. The Shady Hoosier Detective Agency is her debut humorous southern mystery novel series. The series, a work in the emerging baby boomer literature market, chronicles the h-ijinks of two nosy retired ladies, lifelong gal pals, and amateur detectives in training, Ruby Jane Waskom and Veenie Goens.

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